WPDFD Comes To An End

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 1, 2004 @02:11AM from the archives dept.

muchawi writes "After 8 years and 80 editorials, the proprietor of Web Page Design for Designers posts its last editorial. I discovered WPDFD while still an undergraduate, as did many others, eventually landing it the top spot at Google for design, web page design, and web design."

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Alternative in Lieu by gotgenes · 2004-12-01 02:44 · Score: 1, Informative

There's always A List Apart as a nice, still "publishing" resource. :-)

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It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Pass on the torch? by RAMMS+EIN · 2004-12-01 02:55 · Score: 1

If the site is such a great resource, why stop? Why not just pass on the torch to a new maintainer and keep going?

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Developers? by ESqVIP · 2004-12-01 02:59 · Score: 1

Not to be picky, but why was this story posted on /. Developers? I always thought of this section as a center for application development, and WPDFD seems to be purely about webdesign.
1. Re:Developers? by giuntag · 2004-12-01 20:58 · Score: 0
  
  WPDFD was mostly about teaching to designers the stuff the coders (should) know.
  It made a very interesenting read for developers, too: gaining insight into the point of view of people you have to collaborate with is extermely useful, and something that developers tend to underestimate a lot.
  It also was useful in a pure 'development' perspective: lots of info about web design, html/js best practices, tool reviews and such.
  All in all, I think the point is it's sometimes very hard to draw the line between web designer and veleoper.
Level of interest by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 03:42 · Score: 0

Apparently few people actually give a shit since this is the fourth comment in an hour and a half. Perhaps the editors should go fuck themselves, post better stories, or post none at all.
The horror by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 08:18 · Score: 0

Sorry, but a page talking about design using a color scheme like that shouldn't expect to be taken seriously by me. It's only marginally less horrible to the eyes than the former Tacohell design.
Sad to see them go? Not really... (And by the way, Nielsen.. I'll start listening to what you are preaching about usability as soon as you stop slapping me with those 'unusable' blocks of text which make my eyes sore.. Is it too damn difficult to practice what you preach?)
BFD by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 11:45 · Score: 0
Never heard of it before, clicked the link and found:
- Stupid sized text - both fixed and tiny.
- The above mistake, coupled with use of Verdana.
-  s and <p> </p>for layout.
- Use of the <div> element type where other element types should be used.
- Stupid use of class names - class="ninepx" is stupid. class="tagline" is not. Learn the difference.
Cargo cult behaviour:
- Does the author know what the <-- is for in inline Javascript? Obviously not.
- Does the author know why it shouldn't be used in XHTML specifically? Obviously not.
- Does the author know that you don't have to specifically tell spiders to follow links? Obviously not.
- Does the author know what the implications are of attempting to control caching and character encodings via <meta> elements? Obviously not.
- It's obvious the author has just picked up code from elsewhere on the web and copies it into each page he does "just in case" without really understanding what it does.
  
  I spotted all that in two minutes. Is it really that big a deal if this goes away? No advice is better than bad advice, and there's plenty of good advice to be found elsewhere on the net. I hate people who teach others bad habits and outright wrong behaviour and make it out to be a favour.